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This book describes the lives of children in rural communities of the Andes Mountains of Peru. It foregrounds the children’s own perceptions and feelings, so far as they can be known by researchers using ethnographic methods. It shows the great variety of Andean childhoods – some happy, others harsh and demanding – and suggests the options children face: follow the many to migrate to the city or risk their hopes on a better future in the rural setting.
List of contents
1 Care, Community, and Children: A View from the Andes
2 Knowing Children
3 Intimate Contexts of Care
4 Economies of Care
5 Ecologies of Care
6 Practices of Care
7 The Limits of Care
8 Care and Flourishing
9 Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
About the author
JEANINE ANDERSON is a professor emerita of anthropology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. She is the author of a wide number of Spanish-language books, including
Las Infancias Diversas: Estudio Fenomenológico de la Niñez de Cero a Tres Años en Cuatro Pueblos Indígenas de la Amazonía Peruana.
JESSACA B. LEINAWEAVER is a professor of anthropology at Brown University, Rhode Island. She is the author of
The Circulation of Children: Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru and
Adoptive Migration: Raising Latinos in Spain.
